Game 1 of the NBA Finals is history. So the slate is clear for the 2015 WNBA season to begin Friday. The Connecticut Sun, already pounded by injuries, will be at Mohegan Sun Arena to play Washington. UConn fans will make sure to say hello to the...

The WNBA's normal offseason passes quietly and without incident, much like its regular season, which struggles to draw attention from those without direct involvement or interest. But not this time around.The league has been thrust in the eye of the...

The greatest player in women's college basketball is enjoying what amounts to a five-day hiatus from the various responsibilities that come with that title. "What would I like to do? Probably nothing," Breanna Stewart said Monday. "I'd like...

When Geno Auriemma was asked about the perception Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis would have difficulty guarding players like Diana Taurasi in the WNBA, the UConn coach offered a cryptic response.
"Tell me who can guard [Taurasi]?" Auriemma said.
Point...

STORRS – For as long as UConn has played games like Monday's contest against No. 1 South Carolina — its 20th 1 vs. 2 matchup — coach Geno Auriemma has felt conflicted.
Does the game mean everything because of its significance to the promotion of the...

The sports fan in me died Sept. 9, 1972. Forty two years later, it isn't difficult to make such an admission. The hard part is admitting the sports fan in me returned from the dead in the waning days of 2014.
Growing up in the 1960s as a fan of the...

Once the Red Sox lost out on Jon Lester, which was no great surprise, they moved quickly to fill their rotation, adding lefthander Wade Miley (Arizona) and righthander Rick Porcello (Detroit) in trades, then reaching an agreement with...

The Connecticut Sun, with the primary goal of getting back to the playoffs after missing them the past two seasons, will begin their 13th year at Mohegan Sun Arena against Washington on June 5 and will play three of their first four games at home....

BRIDGEPORT – By midweek, headquarters for USA Basketball's pursuit of another FIBA World Championship will shift to a somewhat more metropolitan locale than this blue-collar city by the banks of Long Island Sound.
From the lights of I-95 to the glow of...

NEWARK, Del. — Not only have his former UConn players grown accustomed to his face, but everything about Geno Auriemma's manner and method seems indelibly entrenched years later."I found that I hear him in my head when I'm playing, even though he's...

NEWARK, Del. – Geno Auriemma's second term as coach of USA Basketball's senior national team is filled with challenges, even for a guy who has made a career of meeting and surpassing them.The winner of nine national champions at UConn since 1995 is...

STORRS — This time of year, Geno Auriemma's bags are always packed. It's recruiting season, when college basketball coaches hit the road to gauge the nation's gifted youth.The only difference this autumn is where UConn's coach will be heading — and the...

Jennifer Rizzotti, Hartford's women's basketball coach, will be an advance scout and court coach for the USA Basketball Women’s National Team in the FIBA World Championship Sept. 27-Oct. 5 in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey.
Rizzotti, the three-time...

WASHINGTON – UConn basketball teams are becoming regular visitors at the White House.
But Stefanie Dolson always finds a way to make these photo ops more than routine. She did it last year by putting up bunny ears behind President Barack Obama. This...